The Arizona sentinel., 1887-09-10
Young queens come into being in a

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 Each of these three classes of bees is born, or matched, in a cell belonging to its own kind, and constructed for this special purpose. The royal cells are not only larger than the others, but they are oval, instead of hexagon- al, in shape; and. while the other in- fants are fed by their nurses with bee bread, which is a preparation of pol len and honey, the young princesses, and they only, are regaled with spe- cial food, which is called royal jelly"
 It often happens that if mishap befalls the queen, and she has left no royal egg from which a successor may be matched, the bees will take worker egg from its proper receptacle, place it in a royal cell, feed the larva upon royal jelly, and, in the course of time a full-Aedged queen will issue forth to occupy the throne of the deceased monarch This is most singular and wise provision of nature, and one which naturalists have not yet been I dDl6 bO PAtih'
 When the young bee first ventures into the open air it flies in circle around the hive, the circle constantly expanding until the youngster has taken it's observations of every object in the vicinity, familiarizing itself with every prominent landmark that may serve to guide it in its future flights. After this reconnoitring expedition. the bee always wings its way in straight line to its destination, never losing its bearings; and even though there may be a hundred hives together, and a million bees flying in and out of them, it hastens with unerring certainty to its own home.
 Mistress Bee has three objects in making these excursions, as she does a hundred times day. She seeks to collect honey and pollen-the fine fer tilizing dust of the fowers-and popo- lis. sticky substance gathered from the buds or bark of such trees as the fir, the poplar or the chestnut The pollen is stored away as food for the little ones, and the propolis comes into use as cement in the delicate masonry of the hive.
 While some of the bees are hunting in the fields others remain at home to nurse the infants, store away the honey and the pollen as it is brought Tn, and attend to the thousand and one duties incident to well-regulated com munity.
 When Mistress Bee, out in pastures, alights upon flower, she finds, deep in its sweet embrace, precious liquid, rapidly deposited by the blossom in warm and sunny weather. This she proceeds to gather. It is the honey, which, being swallowed and digested by her, is subjected to some peculiar process before it is placed in the hive in the form familiar to us all. The honey obtained, she proceeds to freight herself with pollen. This she rolls into tiny pellets, and slows it away in pouches in her posterior legs. She will even completely cover herself with this dust, and upon reaching home her sisters will carefully brush her of, gathering up the precious material, that nothing may be lost, and place it in the storehouse cells.
 Perhaps the most remarkable thing in connection with these honey and pol len gathering excursions of the bee is the fact that she confines her search to a single species of flower on each jour ney. This is most important As it is one of the bees functions to fer | tilize undeveloped plants with the pol len proper to its species, the effect of any mistake on her part would sadly confuse our botanical studies.
 On a very warm day you will see several bees standing at the door of the hive. with their feet firmly fast ened to the floor, and Tapping their wings with all their might. They are ventilating the hive, and, by this continued exertion, their wings, op- erating as fans. propel a current of cool air into their dwelling, and pre- vent the inmates from suffering by the intense heat As this operation must be very fatiguing, the farmers are relieved at regular intervals by others who continue the exercise.
 The bees scent is keen, and nothing annoys her more than an offensive smell. She is particularly averse to the odor of precipitation, either upon man or beast. Neither will she sub init to be breathed upon, and great care has thus to be exercised by the bee-keeper in handling his swarms.
 When more than one princess is born, the rivals engage in an immedi- ate and deadly duel and the survivor claims the throne from the mother queen. who, with such loyal subjects as choose to follow her, goes forth into the world in search of new home, which the bee-keeper has care fully prepared meanwhile, and the young queen remains behind to carry on the work of her royal mother.
 Bee-keeplng is a pleasant and profit able industry. It is practiced to a greater extent in the United States than in any other part of the world, and the bees add millions of dollars year to our N ational wealth. Any reader of the Con1pd1aion. who lives in the coun- try, can keep bees if he will first seek | ofo h n,